TV actress Anna Torv

Events in 1978 and 7-6

Events in the world in the birth year of Anna Torv

• Rhodesia's Prime Minister Ian D. Smith and three black leaders agree on transfer to black majority rule (Feb. 15).
• US Senate approves Panama Canal neutrality treaty (March 16); votes treaty to turn canal over to Panama by year 2000 (April 18).
• Former Italian Premier Aldo Moro kidnapped by left wing terrorists, who kill five bodyguards (March 16); he is found slain (May 9).
• Pope Paul VI , dead at 80, mourned (Aug. 6); new Pope, John Paul I, 65, dies unexpectedly after 34 days in office (Sept. 28); succeeded by Karol Cardinal Wojtyla of Poland as John Paul II (Oct. 16).
• "Framework for Peace" in Middle East signed by Egypt's President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Premier Menachem Begin after 13-day conference at Camp David led by President Jimmy Carter (Sept. 17).
• Jim Jones's followers commit mass suicide in Jonestown, Guyana (Nov. 18).

Birthday Anna Torv (7-6) in history

• Day 7-6 year 1494: Spain and Portugal signed the Treaty of Tordesillas, a treaty dividing the "New World" between the two countries.
• Day 7-6 year 1654: "Sun King" Louis XIV ascended the throne of France.
• Day 7-6 year 1776: Richard Henry Lee of Virginia introduced a resolution in the Continental Congress proposing the Declaration of Independence.
• Day 7-6 year 1892: Homer Plessy was arrested for his refusal to move from a whites-only seat on a train. This led to the Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court decision.
• Day 7-6 year 1929: Vatican City became a sovereign state.
• Day 7-6 year 1948: President Eduard Beneš of Czechoslovakia resigned and the Communist takeover of the country was completed.
• Day 7-6 year 1967: Dorothy Parker, American short story writer, poet, and critic, died.
• Day 7-6 year 2003: Rev. V. Gene Robinson was elected the first openly gay bishop by New Hampshire Episcopalians.